Headteacher’s Welcome

I am the Headteacher of Maple Primary School. I joined the school in January 2001.

I consider it to be a great privilege to be the Headteacher of such a busy, vibrant and successful school. Every member of my team is committed to creating a happy, stimulating and safe learning environment for our children.

Over the past few years we have significantly increased the number and variety of lunchtime and after-school clubs available to the pupils; we have improved the quality of our PE curricular provision. With significant financial support from the PTA, we have a) installed an all-weather running track around the perimeter of the field so that all the pupils can take part in daily running exercise, with the oldest pupils running a mile a day; and b) installed outdoor gym equipment for the pupils to use, both at playtimes and during their PE lessons.

In the Spring Term 2017, the school received a successful re-accreditation for the ICT Mark; and in October 2016 the school received its second successful re-accreditation for the Eco-Schools Green Flag Award.

Another recent external re-accreditation was the School Games Award Silver Mark in September 2018 – in recognition of the significant improvements that have taken place to both our curricular and extra-curricular physical education provision over the last three years.

In addition to Computing, Sustainability and Physical Education, the school has a really strong Musical ethos and tradition. The Infants Christmas and Upper Juniors end of Summer Term musical productions are of a very high standard; and may children learn to play a variety of musical instruments. Each Spring Term the Junior Choir sings as part of a massed choir at a Young Voices Concert at the O2 Arena; and in previous years the children have performed at Hertfordshire Schools’ Gala Concerts at The Royal Albert Hall.

In 2018 we were delighted to have another very successful year in the Year 6 SATS tests, both in terms of the high numbers of pupils meeting the Expected Standard in all subjects, as well as the very high scores attained by our most-able pupils.

I am very proud of the teaching skills, commitment and enthusiasm of my staff, along with the hard work and positive attitudes of our pupils, which has resulted in our Ofsted Outstanding status and our on-going academic and curricular success. We continue to look forward to both maintaining the current high standards in all areas, and developing and improving the school still further in the months and years ahead.

I do hope you enjoy browsing through our site and drop in regularly to see what we are doing.